Foodlust

Whole wheat banana bread

Whole wheat banana bread

For many years, I would use the same banana bread recipe, trusting in my ability to find the recipe online again. Predictably, a few months ago, I tried to find the recipe and found that I no longer remembered which one it is that I […]

Alice’s plum cake

Alice’s plum cake

This is a recipe that I got from a friend, who in turn found it in a diary left behind in a Zipcar.  Apparently it’s a recipe that has been featured in the NYT, but I am too lazy to go and find it, so […]

Chocolate chip blondies

Chocolate chip blondies

Blondies are supposedly the non-chocolate alternative to brownies, but let’s face it: they’re basically a chocolate chip cookie in bar form, and you get to cut them into bars without having to portion individual balls of cookie dough.  I’ve been using a lightly adapted version […]

The best chocolate ice cream

The best chocolate ice cream

When I moved to California, I brought 37 boxes with me, including my collection of pint containers.  Yes, pint containers, not pint glasses, procured from an online restaurant supply store.  What can I say?  I love ice cream, like a proper New Englander, and the […]

Strawberry gingersnap icebox cake

Strawberry gingersnap icebox cake

One of the tropes of the food blog is the home cook who reviews a recipe despite completely changing the recipe with “improvements.”  Well, today is the day that I present to you a recipe that I have, in fact, completely changed — although as […]

preliminary cookie survey results!

preliminary cookie survey results!

  At long last, here are the preliminary cookie survey results in poster format!  Take a look at them here.  More detailed results to follow next week.

xmas cookie boxes 2013

xmas cookie boxes 2013

  When I was in college, I used to open my door during final exams and find a box of cookies underfoot.  This meant that Jessica had been hard at work, somehow baking off hundreds of cookies in between studying for and taking exams.  For […]

almond paste + almond butter + almond extract = cake

almond paste + almond butter + almond extract = cake

  Here’s another cake that’s delicious when unadorned with any accoutrements.  This is a cake made with almond paste, which I’ve found makes a cake with a moist but firm crumb.  This cake bakes for a long time (as did the other almond paste cake […]

transcendence in the guise of very delicious cake

transcendence in the guise of very delicious cake

  If you have leftover buttermilk, as I did, you should make this cake. This cake is a little lighter than a traditional pound cake, with a bit of tang from the buttermilk. It still has the tight and tender crumb of a pound cake, […]

Alice Medrich is the sh*t

Alice Medrich is the sh*t

  I am invariably disappointed by brownies from the store, be they artisanal or made from a box (the sole exception being the gluten-free King Arthur brownie mix).  As you know, I already have a favorite brownie recipe, which is more akin to brownie-flavored fudge […]